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Paul Graham famously started to use Mastodon (but has not written anything there since last year). But the HN Status emergency “is HN down” channel is still on
by teddyh 3y ago
Paul Graham famously started to use Mastodon (but has not written anything there since last year). But the HN Status emergency “is HN down” channel is still only on Twitter. It used to be publicly readable at <https://twitter.com/HNStatus https://twitter.com/HNStatus>. But now, if HN was to go down, only logged-in Twitter users would be able to see why.
- clouddrover 3y ago> Paul Graham famously started to use Mastodon And he just as famously went crawling back to Twitter. He's too addicted to quit it.
- hackernewds 3y agoso is Musk. even if he weren't addicted to the platform, per se, he is to the exalted admiration and social proof. once one has acquired all the money in the world, what do they want? power he is hopelessly addicted to Twitter
- geepytee 3y ago>if HN was to go down, only logged-in Twitter users would be able to see why That's probably close to 99% of HN users
- benburleson 3y agoI highly doubt that.
- hackernewds 3y agodoubtful
- gbear605 3y agoYou can count me in the one percent then. :) Seriously though, lots of people don’t use Twitter. Of my friends, only one has a Twitter account, and he’s switched away since Musk took over.
- Terr_ 3y ago*raises hand* I've also avoided Twitter entirely, except where someone was linking into it from outside. In the beginning I felt the original length-limit fundamentally doomed it to a certain kind of not-so-valuable conversation. I mean, hell, even this quick comment here is already ~381 chars. I know the limits have been raised, but I think its effect on the culture remained.
- pengaru 3y agoI've never had a twitter account...
- furyofantares 3y agoThat's an extreme overestimate
- MrVandemar 3y ago> That's probably close to 99% of HN users Projection probably. I use my twitter account so seldom, I'm definitely in the 1%. But then, I'm probably in the 0.5% who if HN happens to be down, will check back the following day instead of worrying.
- chongli 3y agoNever had a Twitter account. Never saw the appeal. Mostly annoyed when occasionally asked to read long-form writing split into multiple tweets. Now I never have to worry about that again!
- throw0101a 3y ago> But now, if HN was to go down, only logged-in Twitter users would be able to see why. There may be a post about it in /r/sysadmin
- wallmountedtv 3y agoWell Reddit is hardly better. They have already started applying a login wall and app wall on mobile.
- incompatible 3y agoIf HN is down, I'll just try again in a few hours, or maybe tomorrow. Maybe I'd start getting interested about what happened it was down for a week or so. Would HN being down count as an emergency for anybody else?
- teddyh 3y ago“Emergency” is used here in the sense of “sudden or unexpected occurence”, i.e. “fallback”. Maybe “backup channel” would have been a more appropriate term.
- hiepph 3y agoWell, I read HN daily at breakfast so having it down feels annoying. But yeah, if it'down, I won't consider it an emergency.
- joveian 3y agoThe link from robotblake's redirector rules works (for now): https://syndication.twitter.com/srv/timeline-profile/screen-name/HNStatus https://syndication.twitter.com/srv/timeline-profile/screen-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36544185 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36544185